Nanci heals from osteopenia on the carnivore diet
Hello my name is Nanci. I am 66 years old a mother of 4 with one wonderful stepson and a grandmother of 9. I was an RN and retired in 2016. I have been married to a wonderful man for 43 years and for many years has served also a pastor’s wife for over 30 years.
For as long as I can remember food has been a huge part of my life. I practiced using it for comfort early on. I first started a weight loss program when I was in high school. Weight Watchers. I weighed 140 lbs and was 5’8” tall. I have always loved sweets. I ate homemade meals growing up but also processed foods. My weight really started to climb when I started having children in my 20’s. I got as high as 275 when I was carrying my third child. I went back down to 220 and through the years crept up to over 300 lbs with the highest being 312 Lbs.
I have tried over 20 diets in my lifetime but have never been able to stay on them for longer than one month at a time. The diets were always low fat high carb diets. I was starving on them. I have been Carnivore for over 2.5 years that is still unbelievable to me.
In 2016 I retired because my knees were so painful. I needed knee replacements. I could no longer work. I have cerebral palsy so my condition was more complicated and finally went out on disability. Around the same time I heard about the Keto diet. Diet Dr was all over the internet so I started following their approach to weight loss. I also listened to Dr Westman a Cardiologist out of North Carolina and Keto United a group out of West Virginia. I lost weight like a rock. Other benefits were: two weeks into the diet, arthritic pain was gone. One month on the diet the 3+ edema in my legs was gone and two months into the diet my stasis ulcers were all healed up and I no longer had to wear surgical stockings. I had a terrible fungal infection under my toe nails and it took two years to heal but that finally is completely gone.
After a few years I found I could not loose anymore weight on keto. I know now it was because I was having too much plant sugar and keto treats. I also enjoyed listening to Dr Ken Berry and Neisha, his wife. They made keto simple. Then fortunately for me I discovered Dr Baker on Joe Rogan and he was talking about the Carnivore diet. So I started listening to him and his VIP guests.
In January of 2020, Shawn started a Carnivore challenge for the month of January and in March of 2020 I joined MeatRx, now Revero. The varied meetings are so informative and the coaches are amazing. They taught me so much and I soaked up the meetings and learned so much from the coaches and community.